Hundreds Of Homes Flooded As Britain Faces Worst Storms In Yearshttp://www.businessinsider.com/britain-faces-heavy-flooding-2012-11/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Sun, 02 Aug 2015 15:02:25 -0400Agence France Pressehttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b2ee9b69bedde11d00000bTEPSun, 25 Nov 2012 23:22:51 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b2ee9b69bedde11d00000b
“Huge, almost Paul Bunyan-like snowfalls.”
David Phillips, senior climatologist with Environment Canada, said he was shocked to see that the 55 to 60 centimetres (about 23½ inches) of snow that has fallen on Regina this month has already surpassed all of last winter’s total of 52 cm.
With a week left in November, Regina has already broken the monthly record of 53.7 cm set in 1941.
The snowfall amounts are also surprising because the bulk occurred over five or six days, Phillips added.
“It’s happened in huge, almost Paul Bunyan-like snowfalls,” he said.
“Not to scare you, but whenever there has been a November with lots of snow, it seems to me you end up with a snowy winter.”
Since 1883, Regina has received an average of 13.8 cm of snow in November. (Making this more than four times the monthly average.)
Phillips notes this isn’t just the case with Regina. Estevan, for example, has received 65.2 cm of snow compared to 62.6 cm all of last winter.
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Cold weather = lots & lots of rain (i.e. it physically cannot rain without cold weather, even in the tropics)
So how about the AGW premise? maybe a little more toasty than normal in the northern latitudes for '12? but how about South? way, way South? like Antarctica? You might want to check that ice build-up data down South, and now it's baaaaack up North. Global warming idiots....it's the Sun, stupid. And the Sun is [just starting to] giving us a repeat of the Maunder, Dalton, Sporer, Dryas minimums, et al.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b2e589eab8eacb49000002PoopieSun, 25 Nov 2012 22:44:09 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b2e589eab8eacb49000002
All that BP oil spilling sloshing around the Gulf is probably messing with the Gulf stream, Jesse Ventura did a good video about it, as usual follow the money, some people made big bucks !http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b2cd1c69bedd9950000001Jack BurtonSun, 25 Nov 2012 20:59:56 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b2cd1c69bedd9950000001
Also. Thanks BI for calling attention to news that does effect the economic outlook in nations. I like the business news, but I know for a fact that war, revolution, political instability and extreme weather effects nations economies. These stories are thus NOT out of place on an economic blog.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b2cc86eab8ea5010000003Jack BurtonSun, 25 Nov 2012 20:57:26 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/50b2cc86eab8ea5010000003
Although I am American, I have spent a lot of time in Britain over the years. I read the British press on the internet for my morning news. The last year has been one tale of severe weather event after severe weather event. And it was not many years back Britain had near record flooding. I suspect, and many weather news sites confirm that the jet stream is acting wild due to the warmer arctic temperatures and the melting ice cap. Less temperature difference between the high arctic and lower latitudes seems to cause a gyration and odd patterns on the jet stream. It appears to be driving rain events into the British Isles. This also seems to have driven "Sandy" in New York and New Jersey.
Britain is really punch drunk from rain. I can't count how many times the city of York has had it's major river flood, it did it again this weekend.